CallCentric Victim of Devastating Two-Week DDoS Attack > Law Enforcement

Law Enforcement

Thanks to the FCC requiring e911 you would think this would fall under willful disruption of emergency services. Hence it should be a major crime.

But then again department of homeland security is more interested in copyright violations.

Another question is whether CallCentric is a large enough entity for law enforcement to seriously notice.

What does size matter when criminality is involved?

reply to dcurrey
ICE is only one part of DHS and has no relevance in these criminal attacks. DHS has a mandate to support and protect our nation's critical infrastructure, telecommunications being a big piece of that.

reply to openbox9
If someone illegally breaks into your Mom & Pop website or Gmail account, and defaces and/or deletes all its content, violating numerous anti-wiretapping and other statues, it is highly unlikely the FBI will dedicate any of their resources to track down the perpetrator. Perhaps your local police department will do you a favor and write-up a report; but they probably lack the necessary resources -- both technical and manpower -- to do much more.

The question is whether CallCentric is on anyone's radar. Outside of the VoIP enthusiast world and small business', they are a relatively unknown company in the wide world out there.

reply to openbox9
Who mentioned ICE? And DHS is unlikely to investigate every time someone attacks a small VoIP provider.

reply to josephf
Have ma and pop actually notified the FBI? My guess is that ma and pop, at best, file a police report. More likely, ma and pop hire some two-bit "security guy" to fix their problem and then put the website back online.

reply to josephf
dcurrey mentioned copyright infringement as DHS' only worry...which falls under ICE's purview.

reply to openbox9
Even if Ma and Pa did notify the FBI it is unlikely the FBI would put much manpower into an investigation.

And when CallCentric called the FBI, the operator taking the report never heard of CallCentric, does not know whether CC is a mom and pop operation or just some entrepreneur dipping his toes in the business. So she simply files a report as she does the dozens of reports she gets every week of some hacker breaking into some website or business network.

How many people does it take to investigate a single webserver breach? One? Not a lot of manpower is really required?

I'm sure CC's involvement with the FBI is a little more than calling an operator and dropping off a few details about the act.

reply to josephf

reply to dcurrey
That gives me an idea Call Centric should immediately add e911 service to all plan levels including the free one. Then as long as the attack continues the attackers off Call Centric are guilty of wantantly disrupting 911 emergency service. This could help CC get more FBI and police help.

I love call centric I use the free plan and its great I have also used ipKall with a free line for a free DID number and it worked great. It pisses me off that some jerks would do this to a decent provider. If they need to attack someone why can't it be one of the greedy bastard Wallstreet companies.